Is there anywhere to buy monitor bezels besides Happ?

[Cue-Ball]

I ordered a 19" bezel from them about two weeks ago (will be going over my 21" PC monitor) and it's apparently still on backorder.  This is one of the only pieces i need to finally complete my cabinet.  Can these be ordered from anywhere else?

[SirPeale]

I know you can make them fairly easily, but I know not how.  There a tutorial anywhere?

[anthony691]

I made mine (well!). I used Matboard from Micheals (hard to get in that size) and X-actoed it to size. It looks GREAT and also works well.

[Cue-Ball]

It would be easy to cut a hole in a piece of matte board, but making the inner edges would be a bear.  I want to make sure that none of my monitor's beige case is showing.  I don't want to have to resort to spray painting the monitor case, but it's looking like i may have to.

[rampy]

It would be easy to cut a hole in a piece of matte board, but making the inner edges would be a bear.  I want to make sure that none of my monitor's beige case is showing.  I don't want to have to resort to spray painting the monitor case, but it's looking like i may have to.

people that don't like to spray paint their monitors for whatever reason, sometimes use electrical tape or black racing tape to cover up the beige *shrug* ymmv,

rampy

[Vesper]

Give Happ a call.  When I ordered my bezel, it was backordered from their Chicago warehouse.  I called them and the customer service rep said they could ship one instead from their Las Vegas warehouse.  Got it a few days later.  It would seem that they allocate the closest warehouse to supply your parts, and backorder status is based on that.

[anthony691]

Well... what kind of monitor is it? Both of the one's I tried (a Sun and a Viewsonic 23") Had smaller inner metal cases, so I just removed the outer case. I can't recommend this for all monitors, however it works great on some.

[JLR2000]

Just a note about painting the Monitor....

I planned on spray painting the monitor on two of my projects. On a whim (and since it was still below freezing outside) I decided to try permanent marker.  I had one of those BIG markers for sign making.  It worked great, it was easy to clean up the little overage I got on the glass, and it didn't require taping everything off.  Turned out to be a perfect solution for me, and was much easier and cleaner to do.....

Good Luck.

[paigeoliver]

That bezel isn't going to match up to your PC monitor anyway, at least not with it in the case. Your going to have to take the front of the case off if you want that bezel to be of any use at all.

[Cue-Ball]

Why wouldn't the bezel work without removing the case?  If the 19" bezel is anything like the 25" bezel (one of the 25s came in my cabinet) then it should work.  The bezel is much deeper than the front plastic on the monitor so i would think it should easily cover up the monitor's case.

[u_rebelscum]

You can cut you own if you want to give it a try.  

Here's some quick dimensions of a (minor water damaged) 19" (or maybe 18" ??) atari UR pole position monitor bezel:


Folds are color coded.  The bezel is in two parts of black card board glued together; the red folds are also where the the bottom piece is attatched to the large upper piece.  
The inside really isn't a rectangle; the edges are curved outward to match the arcade monitor, and so the lengths aren't precise.  The inside diagonal is ~18".  If the front of the bezel was straight vertical, the monitor would be tilted back ~30 degrees.  The blue folds are mountain folds, with the card board scored on the front side, I guess to prevent tears.

FWIW, I thought the bezel was heat warped black plastic until I removed the glass, umm, bezel (?).  You know, the flat one with the instructions and other art painted on it, and protects the monitor.  Are both the glass and the black cardboard "bezels"?

BTW, sorry about the pic, I use a drawing app.  I wish I had a good CAD prog.

[paigeoliver]

Well, plastic bezels perfectly follow the curves of the monitor glass, but the casing on a PC monitor gets in the way of that. I have a bunch of plastic bezels and a bunch of assorted 19" displays, and none of the bezels will properly work on any of the displays that are still "cased". But they all seem to fit fine on "uncased" displays.

If you happen to have a spare arcade monitor frame then your PC monitor tube might bolt into it. Take the back of the case off and measure the eyehole things at the corners of the tube.

[Cue-Ball]

Unfortunately, i don't have an arcade monitor at all, much less a spare one.  And i spent a lot of time and energy fitting the PC monitor into the cab.  I wouldn't want to pull it all back out in the hopes that i could attach it like an arcade monitor.

I think i'll try my hand at making a bezel out of some black tagboard using rebelscums graphic as a rough guide (thanks, man!).  If that doesn't work out or doesn't look as good as i'd hoped, then i'll see how the plastic Happ bezel works once i get it.  If it doesn't fit (19" bezel on a 21" PC monitor, so it might not) then i'll just resell it either on the Buy/Sell forum or locally.

Thanks for your ideas, everyone.

[paigeoliver]

Here is what I did when I had a PC monitor like that.

Used a sharpy to color the plastic around the screen black. Then used black foam weatherstripping as a bezel.

[hevnsnt]

Why would you tape off your monitor to spray paint it?  I just took off the back of my monitor, and then there were 4 bolts to take the front of the monitor off.  Spray painted that and then put it back on.  Worked perfectly!